• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I mean…none of those things are disqualifying for running for office, even if he were convicted of any crimes related to them, which he hasn’t been. Trump is a piece of shit, but yes he has a right to run for office. Now why people would still vote for him despite all that, is much more mysterious.

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      6 months ago

      The Republican party has allowed him to be their candidate for president.

      They absolutely could choose to prevent him from having that role if they wanted to.

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          6 months ago

          He may be popular to some of them, but he’s also turned the party into a culture of personality that has abandoned most of what it used to claim to believe in.

          When he dies (or loses his ability to attract a crowd), the party will be a husk of its former self. They’ll have abandoned their principles which attracted fiscal conservatives in the past, and won’t have their cult leader to rally around.

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      6 months ago

      The concept of AI weaponized mass propaganda on social media makes it less mysterious.